Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Partisan League, the New Progressive Party, the Committee of 48, as well as his Democratic following. That election was gobbled up by the Republicans. They swept out of office Senator Hitchcock and generally carried the State by about 30,000 votes. There was one exception-the Governorship. Charles Wayland Bryan received 82 per cent of the total vote, was elected with a majority...
During his Governorship, he has taken an active hand in the war on gasoline and coal prices, by having the State go into the business* State taxes he reduced 13%. Within six months after taking office, he reduced the number of employes on the State payroll from...
...Passed a bill to make the Governorship of Porto Rico elective in 1932 or at an earlier date if illiteracy can be reduced to 30% on the island...
...have played some part. But the most plausible hypothesis is that of a political motive. He has already announced that if affairs at the White House should not proceed in accord with his standards, he would toss his ha into the presidential ring. Since he came into the governorship on a wave of reform sentiments, he may well have seized this opportunity to show the nation that his might is still on the side of right. But actions speak louder than words and prying eyes may look into Pennsylvania when the campaigns begin...
...from that gentleman's lackeys- nursed Sylvia through the plague, then raging-escaped from a dead-cart-and generally conducted himself in such proper d'Artagnan fashion that it seemed only fair for Mr. Sabatini to reward him with Sylvia's hand and a nice little governorship somewhere in the Indies...